Quotes About Mountains

winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.

The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and eventually to the South China Sea. "Yes! It is called the Danube of the East.

Miles watched the evening shadows flowing up along the backbone of the Dendarii range, high and massive in the distance. How small those mountains looked from space! Little wrinkles on the skin of a globe he could cover with his hand, all their crushing mass made invisible. Which was illusory, distance or nearness? Distance, Miles decided. Distance was a damned lie. Had his father known this? Miles suspected so.

the divine solution to the gross malady of darkness is an army of brilliant light. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come. . . . The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command. Joel 2:2, 11 NIV

The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.

Bats and birds taken from those mountains

Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.

They seemed to get clearer views of life and duty up there among the everlasting hills; the fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists; the warm spring sunshine brought out all sorts of aspiring ideas, tender hopes, and happy thoughts; the lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them, saying, 'Little children, love one another.

Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?

He was strong, and so handsome; So wild and so free; A man of the mountains, In high Tennessee. His arms drew me close

and the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if once it creeps into the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else, return to the hills to die.

Quelle ronde debbono eseguirsi con qualunque tempo e sotto qualunque luce si possano avere lassù all'altezza di undicimila piedi, con la Morte per compagna sotto ogni piede. Rocce lucenti di ghiaccio, dove una scarpa dai chiodi logorati scivola una volta ed una volta sola.

If time is annihilated, mountains and oceans are annihilated.

from that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language

Am avut totuÈ™i È™i o companie mai pl?cut?, a p?s?rilor alungate de frigul din munÈ›i È™i câmpii È™i care au venit s?-È™i caute hrana pe lâng? locuinÈ›ele oamenilor, duÈ™manii lor, aÈ™ezându-se în familii sau colonii pe balconul meu, unde le pun mâncare È™i ap?: dar cred c? dup? ce vremea se va înc?lzi, ele m? vor p?r?si pentru totdeauna.

And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated profile of surrounding islands and dim yet distinct mountains, seemed to exist in a natural confusion, more extravagant and yet more ordinary than anything I could dream or invent. Like a place that will go on existing whether you are there or not, and that in fact is still there.

When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, Jess read aloud, from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or plowed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. Golden compositae, George thought. How easy it was to forget the mountains, just a drive away.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

north by north, that's what the forest told me. There's a place up in the mountains, a place well loved by the moon. A strong valley, and watched over by the dead of my family, and the dead of my people, and the dead of the mountains, all the way back until when the world was made.